Strategic entrepreneurship has become an exciting new field at the intersection of strategic management and entrepreneurship research. However, most research within the field has focused on identifying what organization-level factors cause firm-level entrepreneurial outcomes, rather than how and why these factors actually work in terms of cross-level effects. In addition, many organization design variables have not been considered.

Consequently, the strategic entrepreneurship field stands to gain from adopting a multi-level approach to these issues, including explicit micro-foundations for the strategic entrepreneurship construct itself and an understanding of how organizational structure and organizational control impact firm-level entrepreneurial outcomes.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from strategic and corporate entrepreneurship to discuss the role of micro-foundations, organizational design, and multi-level issues in strategic entrepreneurship.

The conference will feature keynote speeches by Jeffrey S. Hornsby, William Schulze, Mike Wright and Shaker A. Zahra, as well as paper sessions.